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Just because the construction is cheap doesn't mean they're prone to falling down. They probably have the strictest earthquake codes in the world.
by RockRobotRock 2y ago
Just because the construction is cheap doesn't mean they're prone to falling down. They probably have the strictest earthquake codes in the world.
- underlipton 2y agoHistorically, not earthquakes; fire (or tsunami, if you're by the coast).
- kalleboo 2y ago> They probably have the strictest earthquake codes in the world. They do now, but a lot of these old houses that nobody wants predate them. The big earthquake-resistant building codes came in 1981 and 2000. Nobody would think anything of buying a house from 1980 in the west, but in Japan I would never do it (a large factor in the death toll of the Noto quake earlier this year was the high level of pre-1981 housing stock in the area). As newer, safer, houses start filling up the used housing stock I can totally see attitudes slowly changing.